Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper is a death entity who appears when Clawdeen loses consciousness after risking her life. He confronts those who face death and can be refused. He later snatches Deuce and states that the dead must rest and he will not be cheated again, suggesting he enforces the natural order of death.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 1400 CE
- Attested period
- 1400 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Artistic popularity emerged in the 19th century.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Selena, Count Dracula, Lyra, Fire Elementals, Magwayen, Yama-dutas, Heibai Wuchang, Shiva as Tarakeshwara, Visnudutas, Daena, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Marzanna, Chronos, Apollo, Medusa, Saint Peter, Jesus, Samael, Azrael, Michael the Archangel, Amokye, Anito, Santa Muerte, Cronus, Saturn
- syncretized with
- Angel of Death
- allied with
- Father Time, Death
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Owen Thomas as the Grim Reaper”
#7577 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The term "Grim Reaper" only first emerged in English print in the 1840s.”
#12264 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Many mythologies and superstitions simply have a personification of death as psychopomp. Such personifications frequently present death as a reaper, even ascribing it the title "Grim Reaper".”
#14148 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe) causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul”
#14474 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“He snaps these photos hoping to see the Grim Reaper and to die, finally, after having spent decades trapped in the land of the living.”
#40013 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001